1. havkom Dec 24, 2025 parent

   Some people that are immune to listen to people with more experience will continue to be ”junior” forever. They may eventually not have the title junior, but they really are.
2. havkom Dec 11, 2025 parent

   There are fundamental differences. Many people expect a positive gradient of quality from AI overhaul of projects. For translating back and forth, it is obvious from the outset that there is a negative gradient of quality (the Chinese whispers game).
3. havkom Nov 22, 2025 parent

   My tip is: don’t use SDK:s for agents. Use a while loop and craft your own JSON, handle context size and handle faults yourself. You will in practice need this level of control if you are not doing something trivial.
4. havkom Oct 1, 2025 parent

   What about GLP-1 antagonists to lower inflammation / hs-CRP?
5. havkom Aug 12, 2025 parent

   Does this matter much? Git is a ”distributed source control system”. Are you using git in the wrong way? :)
6. havkom May 17, 2025 parent

   Reminds me of C#.. IDisposible and IAsyncDisposible in C# helps a lot to write good mechanisms for things that should actually be abstracted in a nice way (such as locks handling, queue mechanisms, temporary scopes for impersonation, etc).
7. havkom May 15, 2025 parent

   I tried:

   -red

   and:

   red-red-red

   But it did not work and did not get any response. Maybe I am stupid but should this not work?

8. havkom May 4, 2025 parent

   What is the difference between them? Both seems like quite trivial implementations?
9. havkom Apr 30, 2025 parent

   Good investigation!

   Software developers nowadays barely know about transactions, and definitely not about different transaction models (in my experience). I have even encountered "senior developers" (who are actually so called "CRUD developers"), who are clueless about database transactions.. In reality, transactions and transaction models matter a lot to performance and error free code (at least when you have volumes of traffic and your software solves something non-trivial).

   For example: After a lot of analysis, I switched from SQL Server standard Read Committed to Read Committed Snapshot Isolation in a large project - the users could not be happier -> a lot of locking contention has disappeared. No software engineer in that project had any clue of transaction models or locks before I taught them some basics (even though they had used transactions extensively in that project)..

10. havkom Apr 26, 2025 parent

    The big threat of LLM:s is not the diminishing skills of established skilled developers, but rather the skill set building of junior developers.
11. havkom Apr 21, 2025 parent

    try catch - where you catch the right types of errors at the right level is hard to beat.

    However, many make the mistake to handle any errors at the wrong level. This leads to really buggy and hard to reason about code and in some cases really bad data inconsistency issues.

    A rule of thumb is to never catch a specific error which you are not in a good position to handle correctly at that precise level of code. Just let them pass through.

12. havkom Mar 20, 2025 parent

    Amen!
13. havkom Mar 9, 2025 parent

    How to apply these rules on junior co-workers (who think they know what is best from reading a hyped blog post)?
14. havkom Jan 26, 2025 parent

    Yes. It shines with real problems.
15. havkom Dec 28, 2024 parent

    I have seen tons of ”abstractions” in recently created code bases from ”senior developers” which in actual fact is only titanic-grade mess of complicated ”indirection”. Many people nowadays are unfortunately not fit to work in software development.
16. havkom Oct 12, 2024 parent

    BTW, I am currently working in an enterprise with a small team mixed with experienced developers (heros - but still always learning because of new complexities) and new developers (heros in becoming).

    Absolutely fantastic and we create wonders, but it requires management to acknowledge skill and exceptionalism.

17. havkom Oct 12, 2024 parent

    Yes. Focus on building all your team members to heros instead.

    The other way around is possible, but you will end up with a team of 1000 people doing the same work as 10.

18. havkom Aug 24, 2024 parent

    Windows 2000 Professional was the best OS ever. Only downhill from there.
19. havkom Jul 26, 2024 parent

    This looks cool!
20. havkom Jul 25, 2024 parent

    Using these technologies or frameworks may just as well indicate that they are not agile. Nowadays much more common that the wrong technologies are used in the wrong places.
21. havkom Jul 25, 2024 parent

    The document vibe to me is like it is written by some junior engineers who have just read a blog post about the Netflix stack and think they know it all now.
22. havkom Jul 25, 2024 parent

    First parts of the document are pure BS focusing on hype technologies rather than “Agile”. I mean, questions about ”Kubernetes or Docker Swarm?” etc.

    The last section with flow chart is good though.

23. havkom Jul 20, 2024 parent

    Lots of very strong opinions here what they should have done in terms of code/pipelines/etx from people who have no idea how CrownStrikes stack or build systems works and people who have no clue how to write that type of software themselves (including Windows kerneln modules).
24. havkom Jul 9, 2024 parent

    The doctors example is good, however may not only be health communication between a parent and a doctor but among parents themselves to figure out what action (if any) to take in relation to a condition.

    The hesitation to effectively communicate after CSAM may actually cost lives.

25. 6 points Jun 29, 2024

    "Developerocracy" – A New Challenge for Scandinavia?

    3 comments havkom
26. havkom Jun 14, 2024 parent

    Did they recall the recall product?
27. havkom May 24, 2024 parent

    #14401370
28. havkom May 17, 2024 parent

    But now with 856+ points on HN about it, it is probably a valuable relic!
29. havkom May 4, 2024 parent

    I agree. The state of level of “basic” knowledge in developers are dropping.

    The consequences are that developers can tackle basic tasks which are supported by the frameworks they use, but once something is not supported or straightforward they don’t know what to do and get completely stuck.

    From society’s point of view, the usefulness and value of the task force decreases and important problems are not solved or aren’t efficiently solved.

30. havkom Mar 7, 2024 parent

    I think Apple holds developers and third parties to “click through” agreements, so I hope Epic does the same towards Apple (it there has been any breach).

    Feels like it is a weak legal argument (even though some jurisdictions may have special “ticket cases” doctrines).

    It is not Epics concern if Apple by mistake would enter into a contract with them or not. It is up to Apple to whom they offer such agreements and how.

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